Android: Dragon Mobile Assistant, released two months ago in beta, has a great feature set as a personal assistant app, and the latest update adds even more capabilities. Now you can use the app to launch other apps, set alarms, and play music just by speaking. In addition, you no longer need ICS to run it.

Android: Fans of Swype, one of our favorite Android keyboards, have a lot to be happy about today: Nuance has rolled out a major update to the Swype Beta that includes an updated keyboard that learns your favorite words as you use it, real predictive text for those who still tap individual letters, handwriting…

While Android has a pretty great voice search system built-in, Dragon Go kicks it up a notch, with impeccable speech recognition skills and by automatically detecting what you're searching for and taking you to the correct web page.